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Glyph for U+13300
Source: Noto Sans EgyptHiero

U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040

U+13300 was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block U+13000 to U+1342F Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+13300 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The was (Egyptian wꜣs "power, dominion") sceptre is a symbol that appeared often in relics, art, and hieroglyphs associated with the ancient Egyptian religion. It appears as a stylized animal head at the top of a long, straight staff with a forked end.

Was sceptres were used as symbols of power or dominion, and were associated with ancient Egyptian deities such as Set or Anubis as well as with the pharaoh. Was sceptres also represent the Set animal or Khnum. In later use, it was a symbol of control over the force of chaos that Set represented.

In a funerary context the was sceptre was responsible for the well-being of the deceased, and was thus sometimes included in the tomb-equipment or in the decoration of the tomb or coffin. The sceptre is also considered an amulet. The Egyptians perceived the sky as being supported on four pillars, which could have the shape of the was. This sceptre was also the symbol of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome, the nome of Thebes (called wꜣst in Egyptian).

Was sceptres were depicted as being carried by gods, pharaohs, and priests. They commonly occur in paintings, drawings, and carvings of gods, and often parallel with emblems such as the ankh and the djed-pillar. Remnants of real was sceptres have been found. They are constructed of faience or wood, where the head and forked tail of the Set animal are visible. The earliest examples date to the First Dynasty.

The Was (wꜣs) is the Egyptian hieroglyph character representing power.

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 78592
UTF-8 F0 93 8C 80
UTF-16 D8 0C DF 00
UTF-32 00 01 33 00
URL-Quoted %F0%93%8C%80
HTML hex reference 𓌀
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Γ°β€œΕ’β‚¬

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH S040
Unicode 1 Name β€”
Block Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category Other Letter
Script Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Case Folding Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic βœ”
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base βœ”
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue βœ”
ID Start βœ”
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic ✘
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category β€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name β€”
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space ✘
XID Continue βœ”
XID Start βœ”
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment β€”
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+13300 Egyptian Hieroglyph S040
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U